[dharma1]

Thanks for releasing your code for this! Also really enjoy your cs231n lectures on youtube.

There is some grain/small repeating pattern in many of the style transfer pictures I've seen - could it be an artifact of this? http://distill.pub/2016/deconv-checkerboard/

[jcjohns]

Yes, I think that is a likely explanation. Also note that Vincent Dumoulin is an author of both the deconv-checkerboard blog post and the new paper from Google, and that the new Google paper uses the upsample+convolution technique suggested by the deconv-checkerboard blog post.